The publisher of Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies wishes to retract the article Al-Khazaleh, S., Badwan, D.N., Eriqat, I. and El Shlmani, Z. (2024), “COVID-19 pandemic and linkage between stock markets in Middle Eastern countries”, Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, Vol. 17 Nos 2/3, pp. 112–132. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCEFTS-01-2024-0010. It has come to our attention that a large portion of this article is taken, without full and proper attribution, from an earlier unpublished work by Kalu O. Emenike, “COVID-19 Pandemic and Linkage between Stock Markets in Southern Africa Custom Union”, which is currently under consideration with another journal. The submission guidelines for Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies make it clear that articles must be original and not infringe any existing copyright. The authors of this article would like to note that they do not agree with the content of this notice.
The publisher of the journal sincerely apologizes to the readers.
The retracted article is available at: 10.1108/JCEFTS-01-2024-0010
